4) Does digging out facts from old curl archives and putting them together in
a graph sound interesting to you? See how the amount of code have grown in
curl from 1998 to 2003: http://curl.haxx.se/docs/loc.html

5) The sourceforge mailing lists seems to be having problems. Some of my posts
take a very long time to reach the list, some have even disappeared
completely without ever having shown up and some just pop up with the speed
you'd expect. I'm not in a position where I'll be moving any lists, but
instead I cross my fingers that the problems will pass soon.